like machines do

i have forgotten how to write here.

IS ANYONE ELSE ON TUMBLR? there, i blog about beautiful things that rarely concern me in the immediate sense. here, the grounds are vestiges of a former time, a grizzled apparatus i've forgotten how to wield.

having a job based on the internet clips the attention span and trains the habits to consume in snippets and sound bites and thumbnails and headlines, in 30-second videos and 140-character status updates. in my apartment, i have no television or internet; my iphone (which i do not pay for either) can be tasked to find recipes, yoga schedules, and other relevancies when necessary.

in december, i became twenty-two, and despite the continuing scrutiny of bartenders and waiters and distant family members, i was suddenly not so young anymore. at the end of the month and through nearly two weeks into 2009, i absconded on an epic backpacking trip across costa rica, during which i lost my thrifted sperry top-siders and my appetite for meat and just barely scraped the surface of my wanderlust.

i am (re)learning spanish and training my knife skills; i am drawing for a webcomic i started with a good friend.

hello there, remember me?
perhaps; perhaps not.

either way, here's what i've been up to:

in april, i began rock climbing
in may, i graduated from uc berkeley with a b.a. in mathematics
in june, i hiked half dome
in july, i traveled south to mexico and north to portland
in august, i moved to the mission district of san francisco and started an amazing new job as a web developer, bought a beautiful new bike, saw sondre lerche live for the third time
in september, i was the recipient of good things: tao lin's mystery amazon gifting, an iphone 3g from work
and here we are, on the brink of october. i've been dating a beautiful boy for almost nine months.

i hope to see you all again sometime soon.

p.s. relevant things have been gradually shifted to BIRDMEAT, TWITTER, etc.